113 HR 1678 IH: Saving Essential American Sailors ActU.S. House of Representatives2013-04-23text/xmlENPursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.I113th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 1678IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESApril 23, 2013Mr. Cummings (for
himself, Mr. Rigell,
Mr. Rahall,
Mr. Garamendi,
Mr. Larsen of Washington,
Ms. Pingree of Maine,
Mr. LaMalfa,
Mr. Pocan,
Mr. Grimm, and
Mr. Young of Alaska) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in
addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a
period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concernedA BILLTo amend title 46, United States Code, to reinstate
provisions requiring that a percentage of aid provided by the Secretary of
Agriculture or the Commodity Credit Corporation in the form of certain
agricultural commodities or their products must be transported on commercial
vessels of the United States, and for other purposes.1.Short titleThis Act may be cited as the
Saving Essential American Sailors
Act or the SEAS
Act .2.Reinstatement of
requirement to transport agricultural-commodity aid on commercial vessels of
the United StatesSection
100124 of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law
112–141) is repealed, and the provisions of law that were repealed or amended
by that section are revived and amended, respectively, to read as if such
section were not enacted.